Here’s episode 3 of my cine-editor series.
This time it’s the Mongols who besiege a Polish castle.
I had some trouble creating this episode with several game crashes… But eventually I was able to create the episode with some guys in the gamespy lobby.
So thanks to Attila and Schnitzelz for attempting to help me
As you will see there is narration added by a guy named Secretus, he also did the map animations.
I forgot to put him in the credits, many thanks to him too.
It’s again two parts first part is the intro, second part is the battle:
Now the real story is going to start, with the involvement of the Papal states.
Due to the problems and my limited amount of time on the internet because of school, I decided to do most of the battles with the AI and only some scenes online.
Episode 4 will be released in one or two months if nothing goes wrong.
Hope you enjoyed
To start a Crusade you will need the right diplomatic context, because you have to get the blessing of the Pope. So maintaining good relation with him in the previous turns is crutial. One advantage of starting a Crusade or Jihad, over participating in one, is the ability to choose the targeted city.
The Jihad works similarly, but in the case of Muslim, it must be started by an imam following the loss of Muslim territories. Since Imam are under your command, it quite easy to start one compared to the
Christian factions and the diplomatic requirement they face. It’s important to note that to join a Crusade or a Jihad, you will need a general with an army of 8 units.
Crusades and Jihads have few advantages.
The armies participating move twice as fast then normally.
The units participating cost nothing to maintain and many units are only available as mercenaries in the crusade and jihad.
When a crusade or jihad achieves its objective, the generals participating will win a lot of traits and gain commanding experience.
For a Christian faction, the relations with the Pope will improve in the case of a victory.
The fact that your army moves around fast may allow you to loot many cities on the way making your empire richer.
While the crusades and jihad can look attractive, using them at the right moment is very important. You need to know how to gain from them, since they offer interesting opportunities.
Before joining a crusade or jihad, you need to consider the following aspects:
Make sure that the objective isn’t too far from the territories of your faction.
Conquering a city far away brings with it many problems.
A newly conquered city in the middle of hostile territory increases your military cost and divides your forces.
If your crusade doesn’t advance fast enough the desertion rate will increase and weaken your crusading army. If many factions are participating to the conquest of the objective, you need to remember that only one faction will control the city by the end of the crusade.
This means that at some point you can have a general and his army in the middle of an hostile territory without any place to retreat. The process of bringing him back can be dangerous making his army ineffective and costly. It can then be considered a waste of resources.
Here’s episode 2 of my machinima medieval 2 cine-editor serie.
This is basically the part where the Russian king marchers out of Moscow and meet the Mongols with his royal army.
I got aided by Attila lots of thanks to him.
I again had to divide it in 2 parts because it was to long for youtube.
For the next episode I need 2 people, I guess that will be doable without much organising .
I’m pleased to announce that I (finally) finished the first episode of my Mongol Invasion serie.
Lot’s of thanks to Alf for aiding me with the battle
I had to create two parts since my vid was longer then 11 minutes.
So here they are:
Sorry that you can sometimes see the inside of some men, I tried to delete most of these failed scene parts. I’m gonna take a break before I start on the next episode. I took +- 20 hours on this one. Well the result was satisfying :D.
So I hope you enjoy.
Here are two battle I did long time ago against worthy adversaries in Medieval II Total War Multiplayer. I have choose to show those battles because they are fairly “usual”. Their isn’t any amazing strategies. Both army are equal in numbers and no units are overpowered. In clear those battle from my point of view are the normal kind of battle where both side clash into a bloodbath and the issue of the battle is the result of micro choice and moves
In this first battle, i think the key of the victory was mostly the fact that I kept the enemies heavy cavalry busy, away from my stronger infantries. My Militia cavalry thanks to it’s mobility also did ambush the enemies slower cavalry and ultimately made it a none factor in the battle. I guess the high point of the battle remain the glorious ending of the enemy general that killed many of my troops before finally falling
This battle was against the Dane. it seem that it is a very under estimated faction but by experience the Huscarls are stronger then they seem. They can beat knights and heavy cavalry even if they have light chain mail armors. I think what is special in this battle is that as the byzantine I didn’t ordered my cavalry to charge and by experience the huscarls would have won if i did. Since the huscarls units attack faster then knights or byzantine heavy cavalry. So my keeping my cavalry in dense formation that neutralized the huscarl fast attack in a melee fight and forced them into a line infantry type battle where my heavy cavalry and some infantry could neutralize the huscarl, also the fact my i have deploy my elite infantry in the front of my army allowed my forces to make his infantry panic very fast.
It’s been a long time since I posted someting on DYG.
As some of you may know I did a chronicles with the papal states. But because I had put mongols into playable factions by adjusting the descr_strat file they didn’t appear. So I decided to make a series with the cinematic editor of the Mongol invasion. It’s inspired by Master@arms’ series.
These scenes were not taken from the episodes, since I still have to make them. Now why did I put: ‘In cooperation with Dateyourgame in it’? Attila was a total war master and most of you are fans or people who liked to play M2TW against Attila. So I guess there will be lots of people here that still have a copy of M2TW and play it online. I need your help because unlike Master@arms’ series, I will not make everything with custom battles, but with replays of online battles. My storyline is a bit too complex to create everything with custom battles. What do you gain with aiding me? You will be mentioned in e credits for sure. I will owe you my gratitude etc
Now what do you need to help me:
- A copy of M2TW patched 1.3
- The ability to play battles online
- Have xfire and add me Kinshejsi as your friend. (xfire is essential to be able to communicate)
That’s it, i hope you enjoyed and you will also enjoy the upcomming episodes
About a week ago, I was fooling around with the Battle Editor, and I decided to fight in the Americas. I chose a general unit called “King Harold” and well the video shows the rest. Enjoy.
This is a little battle between DYG members. It was a free for all or 1v1v1. I was the mongols against the holy roman empire, and england. As you can see I moved in a bit late, this was not on purpose though (spartan knows what I’m talking about haha). I was too distracted with my archers in the back of the corners of the map distracting both of their cavalry i didn’t notice they had charged into each other. Alright well, enjoy.
This victory against alf2142 was a very hard game, and I think that I was a little lucky, he’s a good player, VERRY GOOD, and I think that if I play another game vs him i will lose. Hope you like it, if you do please comment it.
In this game i have clearly defeated my enemy, he got some experience through and next time it will be harder for me, if you like it please comment it.
This video of Medieval II Total War Kingdom was recorded by in January. What is nice about it, is the fact that both line hold. But ultimately my Heavy Knights win the flanking war.
I played a game of Medieval II online with Attila since I’m a long time user of this blog. He played as Venice and i played as Sicily. It was a hard battle to fight because both sides were even in numbers and we both started with 15k for our armies. Most of the dead that were caused in this battle were the horses because both armies took plenty of horsemen. In the end it was whoever could hold out the longest won because troop morale was disabled meaning a fight to the death.
I faced off with Pace and Schnitzelz in a siege as Byzantium. Since the video is kinda cut off, Ill tell you that I only took about 450 casualties out of 1200 and they each took 800 - 900 casualties out of 1100. Enjoy!
Today here is a small battle from the Medieval II Total War Kingdoms expansion pack. This is battle in Egypt where the Egyptian attack my army on a bridge. There was actually two armies attacking me, but this video only show the first one of them since the other camped out in the corner of the map for some reason… I ultimately won the fight because of the time limits with only a few man still in condition to fight. Wasn’t too glorious and was kinda long, so i left it out of the video. So I hope you enjoyed
This is the 4th installment of my Baltic series and the first video I made with Adobe Premiere I hope everyone will enjoy.
Ben A.K.A. Master@Arms41
This is a fictional story. The year is now 1302 and the holy war between the Lithuanian Pagans and the Teutonic Order has been raging on for 12 years and the conflict is starting to slow, but in a last ditch effort, Lithuania fielded an army to take the city of Riga and end the war. But they will have to get passed the superior forces of the Teutonic Order and the tall stone walls to end this ungodly war.Special thanks to my good friend Kinshejsi for some great music.
Its been a while since I put up a post and I had some photos I took while playing and I recently got Adobe Photoshop and I had some fun and made some pictures and I put them together with a little bit a Dragonforce. Its not as many photos as I would have liked to have, but its all that I have at the moment, so enjoy
This is a factional story. The year is 1250 AD, The Teutonic Order after being informed from their spies have sent three large forces to deal with the Pagans. One of the forts is on the outskirts of the Livonia Province southwest of Riga. The Teutonic order has sent diplomats to Novgorod to ask assistance against the Pagans, but talks are not going well when a severed head of two diplomats have returned to Riga. The Teutonic Order is opening talks now with the Danes. This is only the beginning.
FYI: I’m testing out my ability to apply camera shake and this is my first attempt.
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